WOW News – 29 May | The Web on Wheels

WOW News – 29 May

May 29th, 2009 |

Author: Maree

Hi, here’s this week’s news from The Web on Wheels!

Our US friends observed Memorial Day this week. I hope the day was peaceful for you. With the world the way it is today, I think it’s timely for all of us to remember those who have fallen in wars.

There are many articles on the Internet about Memorial Day, and the history of the day, if you’d care to do a search for further reading.

In this week’s issue we’ll look at:

Using Favorites in Internet Explorer;
Article: Drinking Coffee reduces risk of Alzheimer’s; and
Humour… Can’t eat this, can’t eat that.

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Just a quick word about the content of this message.
Throughout this newsletter I have included various links to websites, and included some pictures. Sometimes those links don’t work.
It’s NOT you! It’s the technology.
Sometimes your computer, or the system you’re using (eg. Hotmail, Outlook) decide to look after your security and block your ability to go straight to an outside website or to download pictures. Sometimes it’s simply that your computer is set to get only plain text messages. So no matter what you do, you won’t get the nice looking, easy-clicking tricks, your message will be just as it says – plain text without any of the fancy stuff.

If a link doesn’t work, try looking on your screen, and see if there’s a messsage saying “Add to Safe Senders List”, or “Mark as Safe”. Go ahead and click that, then future messages will come through perfectly for you. (Let me know if things don’t work as you expect and I’ll get it sorted for you.)

Until next week, please take good care of yourself.

Viv

“Life is an echo; what you send out comes back.”

Chinese proverb

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This week’s problem and solution

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This week’s problem I realise a lot of you already know the answer to. And gold star to you if you’ve already mastered this.

But there are still many people who don’t know of this natty little feature. So today we’ll go through what Favorites are. (also known as bookmarks)

Favorites

How many times have you been to a website and thought: “mmm I’ll go back to that site one day – no problems, I’ll remember next time.”? Only to find when you do want to go back to that website, you sit at your computer, go to the Internet, and gaze at the screen thinking “what was that site?” “how did I find it?”

The very easiest thing to do when you are at a website you’d like to come back to later, is to add it to your Favorites list. So then next time you want to re-visit that site, you just need to:

Click on Favorites, and;
Scroll down to find the link in your list;
Click the link, and you’ll be taken straight to the webpage.

TO ADD A WEBPAGE TO YOUR FAVORITES LIST

NOTE: Good old Microsoft – just when you thought you were getting used to something, they go and change it. There’s a new version of Internet Explorer, we’re now up to Version 8. And they’ve changed a couple of things. One is the ‘Add to Favorites’ star has been replaced with ‘Add to Favourites Bar’. Today we’ll just look at the Favorites button.

Internet Explorer 7	Internet Explorer 8
If you have Version 7, your Favorites buttons will look like this:	If you have Version 8, your Favorites buttons will look like this:

* Click on the Add to Favorites button (the one with the plus sign in front of the star)	* Click on Favorites * Click on Add to Favorites

A new window will display (funnily enough it’s called ‘Add a Favorite’)

If you’re happy with the suggested words displayed,
click OK
You can change the wording to whatever you like,
whatever will make it easy for you to find when you’re
ready to go back to that website.
When you’ve changed the wording to your choice,
click OK.

(the suggested name for the Favorite link
is the Title of the webpage you are currently on, and it’s highlighted.)

SORTING FAVORITES

If you’d like to arrange your list into folders (like your email Inbox, or the filing system in your computer) you can do so.

When you are in the ‘Add a Favorite’ window:

Click on the New Folder button
Type your Folder name;
Click Create.

When you Click OK, your Favorite link will
go into the folder you created.

It’s worth remembering that the Favorites function is a link to the WEBPAGE you were on. Not the website in general, but the actual page. Some websites can have hundreds of pages. So sometimes finding that particular page can be tricky. By putting your desired webpage into your Favorites list, you won’t have to go digging around to find the exact page – it’ll be remembered in your Favorites, and you’ll go straight to it.

And if you’re using a different web browser – such as Firefox, you have the same function, it’s just called Bookmarks, and using it is quite similar. If you’re a Silver or Gold member and you’d like some help with it, please email me and I’ll give you a hand.

SUMMARY:

To use Favorites: 1) Click on Favorites; 2) scroll down the list until you find your link (or folder), 3) left click once on the link. You’ll go straight to the webpage.

SEE HOW IT WORKS

I have a video for you on this function. It’s about 6 minutes long. In the video I go through all of the above, as well as briefly show you the History and RSS feeds, how to sort your Favorites and show you how to ‘Pin’ the Favorites pane to your screen.

Click on the link below to go to the video on our site. Wait a minute or two to be sure the video is fully ‘loaded’ on your computer, then click on the play button.

Here’s the link to the video:

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How are you?

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Coffee

Do you drink tea and/or coffee? I must admit that I love a good cup of coffee, and really like green tea.

I decided to cut down on my coffee recently, so thought I’d read up a bit on what the word is nowadays on whether it’s a good or bad thing to drink coffee.

My friends at Lumosity have this to say in their newsletter this week:

What’s the best way to consume caffeine for sustained cognitive function?

Studies have concluded that caffeine is best consumed gradually over the course of the time that you want to be alert.

In other words you should aim for small and frequent doses of caffeine rather than a venti chug to start the day.

This is because caffeine reaches the brain quickly and is then gradually removed by your system.

Here’s the caffeine content of some popular drinks in milligrams per 6oz serving).

Espresso 100
Brewed coffee 80 – 135
Instant coffee 65 – 100
Tea, brewed 40
Coca Cola 23

The following article is from The Age newspaper, Melbourne.

Drinking coffee reduces risk of Alzheimer’s

January 16, 2009

Middle-aged people who drink moderate amounts of coffee significantly reduce their risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, a study by Finnish and Swedish researchers has shown.

“Middle-aged people who drank between three and five cups of coffee a day lowered their risk of developing dementia and Alzheimer’s disease by between 60 and 65 per cent later in life,” said lead researcher on the project, Miia Kivipelto, a professor at the University of Kuopio in Finland and at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.

The study, which was also conducted in cooperation with the National Public Health Institute in Helsinki and which was published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease this month, was based on repeated interviews with 1,409 people in Finland over more than two decades.

They were first asked about their coffee-drinking habits when they were in their 50s and their memory functions were tested again in 1998, when they were between 65 and 79 years of age.

A total of 61 people had by then developed dementia, 48 of whom had Alzheimer’s, the researchers said.

“There are perhaps one or two other studies that have shown that coffee can improve some memory functions (but) this is the first study directed at dementia and Alzheimer’s (and) in which the subjects are followed for such a long time,” Kivipelto told AFP.

She said it remained unclear exactly how moderate coffee drinking helped delay or avoid the onset of dementia, but pointed out that coffee contains strong antioxidants, which are known to counter Alzheimer’s.

The rest of the article is here:

END AGE ARTICLE

And if you’d like to read a few more facts about the benefits and risks of drinking coffee, there’s an entry at Wikipedia here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_and_health

But I’m going to take the view that I love to drink a great cup of coffee, and what we eat and drink are an important part of enjoying life. So I’m going to stick to my two cups a day, and hopefully that will give me enough of the benefits while minimising any risks. And if there’s any chance of improving my cognitive performance then I’m all for that!!

All things in moderation